This limited-edition Oneplus 5T will be available with 128GB of storage for $559.

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OnePlus this week launched the Sandstone White version of the 5T phone it’s been teasing for the last few days.

The limited-edition OnePlus 5T will be available with 128GB of storage (111GB of which is user available) and 8GB of RAM for $559 in the United States, £499 in the UK, and €559 in Europe.

The cheaper 64GB and 6GB RAM OnePlus 5T won’t arrive in white; at the time of this writing, you can still pick one of those up in regulation Midnight Black for $499, £449, or €499, respectively.

As the name implies, the Sandstone White OnePlus 5T features a textured, grainy finish that’s created by sandblasting the metal body of the phone with a “mixture of natural minerals and white oil paint” after the first two coats of paint are applied, before finishing with a final layer of UV coating. All of the other controls are black, save for the proprietary alert slider, which is fashioned from anodized red aluminum. It’s not a million parsecs away from the recent Star Wars limited edition, come to think of it.

OnePlus says this coating is the most expensive ever, so we’re relieved to see the price not jumping up accordingly.

Compared to the regular black OnePlus 5T, it is noticeably different in texture and feels a little easier to grip; as nice as the normal OnePlus 5T is, that smooth, sleek body is wont to fly out of your sweaty palm on a hot summer’s day.

That said, the white surface is most noticeable when you’re looking at the phone from behind. The white color doesn’t extend to the admittedly small bezel, which makes the phone look like the half of an Oreo that got all the cream (on that note, it just so happens that OnePlus 5Ts can now get Android 8.0 Oreo through the Open Beta platform).

If you choose to wrap up your Sandstone White 5T in a case for extra protection, you miss out on most of that pearly whiteness, too. Aesthetics aside, the phones are identical—same kernel and baseband version and build numbers—meaning that once the official OTA update to Android 8.0 is ready, that’ll be pushed out at the same time, should you not want to go down the Open Beta path.

To see what you’ll get for $559, check out the Sandstone White OnePlus 5T in the photos below, with a Midnight Black one for comparison.